Around the Courts” Upcoming Badminton Events in 2012 Volume 5 : Issue 3
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BADMINTONBADMINTON VICTORIA VICTORIA ‘Around‘Around the the Courts’ Courts’ April 2012 In this issue... From BV New BV Logo Pat Daw New Life Member BV Board Changes 2012 Pan Pacs Team Named BA Rankings Australian Open Yam Wins SSV Sporting Blue Recent Results Coaches Corner BADMINTON VICTORIA “Around The Courts” Upcoming Badminton Events in 2012 Volume 5 : Issue 3 Box 4, MSAC, Aughtie Drive April 6-14 June Bevan Under 17 Carnival Hobart Albert Park, Victoria, 3206 P: (03) 9686 4777 April 14-15 Ballarat Veterans Ballarat F: (03) 9686 6999 E: [email protected] April 19-22 Tahiti International Challenge Tahiti April 21-22 SEBA Juniors Springers April 28-29 Geelong Open & Graded Geelong May 4-6 Australian Junior International Perth W: badmintonvic.com.au F: facebook.com/badmintonvic T: twitter.com/baddyvic APRIL 2012 | BADMINTON VICTORIA ‘Around the Courts’ From The BV Office STATE DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE The 79th Annual General Meeting of Badminton Victoria was held at the State Netball & Hockey Centre on Saturday 17th March 2012. Peejade Cheng was elected unopposed as President of Badminton Victoria for the next two years, Ron Gray and Paul Kern were re-elected to the board and I would like to welcome Rochelle Liyanage from SEBA to the board. The President summarised the past years achievements, highlighted some of the challenges ahead and acknowledged the contribution made by all our committees and volunteers throughout the past year. The final formality of the AGM was to install Mrs Pat Daw as a Life Member of Badminton Victoria. Pat has worked tirelessly for Badminton for over 40 years; Peejade highlighted Pat’s dedication to our sport and presented Pat’s Life Membership. Badminton Victoria ran a competition to find a new logo as we commence our 80th year. After going through a number of very good submissions, the board decided on the logo from Southern Land Badminton. The club was then presented with two season tickets to the Yonex Australian Open. We would like to thank all those people that submitted a logo for consideration. The board considered three applications from member associations to host the 2013 U17 June Bevan team event and National individual championships. After a great deal of discussion the board decided to award the Championships to Western Suburbs Badminton Association. Congratulations to Badminton Australia, in particular Loke Poh Wong and the many volunteers from all over Australia on the highly successful running of the Yonex Australian Open in Sydney. The venue looked world class, the field of competitors was world class and the volunteers were first class. The event was a sell-out on the final two days, with sold out signs out the front Saturday & Sunday. Badmintons attention now turns attention to the 2012 Li-Ning Victorian International being held at MSAC on Thursday 28, Friday 29 and concluding on Saturday 30th June. Entry forms available soon. Peter Roberts State Director W: badmintonvic.com.au F: facebook.com/badmintonvic T: twitter.com/baddyvic APRIL 2012 | 2 BADMINTON VICTORIA ‘Around the Courts’ Badminton Victoria Unveil Their New Logo During late 2011 Badminton Victoria set a challenge for its members, to create a new corporate image for Badminton Victoria. After many nominations and proposals from prospective designers, the Badminton Victoria board selected the design from "Southern Land Badminton Club" as the winning design. The logo created by Southern Land was fresh and inviting, while clearly fitting the criteria that was set by the Badminton Victoria board. Southern Land's idea behind the logo was: "The concept behind this logo design is simplicity. The main reason for choosing simplicity is to have your logo stand out in your industry and on your website." Many of the logo's that Badminton Victoria compete with are bright, bold and full of colour, for this reason a simple logo was selected to stand out from the competition. The rationale of the Badminton Victoria logo was: "1. The shuttle in the centre represents the symbol of the sport, Badminton. 2. The shuttle also appears in a 'V' shape stands for Victoria 3. The curve outside the shuttle represents two things; the Badminton racket and the world - an international sport 4. The shade of blue chosen is Badminton Victoria's current corporate colour ( The colour also represents Victoria's state colour of Navy Blue)” Badminton Victoria would like to congratulate Southern Land Badminton for their wonderful logo and the countless hours spent in its design and creation! Look out for the new logo in all communications from Badminton Victoria from today onwards! W: badmintonvic.com.au F: facebook.com/badmintonvic T: twitter.com/baddyvic APRIL 2012 | 3 BADMINTON VICTORIA ‘Around the Courts’ Pat Daw Inducted As A BV Life Member Pat Daw has been inducted as a Badminton Victoria Life Member at the 2011 AGM, held on Saturday 17th March 2012, at the State Netball Hockey Centre. This is recognition of the many years of hard work and dedication to the sport of Badminton in Victoria. Badminton Victoria would like once again congratulate Pat on this achievement! For those who dont know Pat, here is a bit about her: "Pat joined the committee of Western Suburbs Badminton Association, chairing her first meeting as President in 1989 and still holds this position. On numerous occasions, between managers, Pat took over the day to day running of the Altona Badminton Centre and spent many hours organising the staff and overseeing the administration of the Stadium. Pat has been involved in the organisation of many WSBA tournaments and the 2006 and 2008 Under 15 national carnivals held at Altona. She has also been the Event Director for an Under 19 Australian Carnival and Under 17 Australasian Badminton Carnival hosted by Badminton Victoria. Pat was a member of Victorian Badminton Association Council in the 1960’s, a member of the Badminton Victoria Review Committee in 1999 and has worked, as a volunteer at Badminton Australia collating tournament results. Pat is the WSBA delegate to the Victorian Junior Badminton committee and has recently taken the position of secretary of the Victorian Junior Badminton committee. Pat has been most proactive in setting up all the tournament and pennant competitions on the BA approved tournament software and willingly shares her knowledge with others. Pat updates and maintains the WSBA website which has an average of 3000 – 4000 readers accessing it each month. Pat also maintains the VJB website. W: badmintonvic.com.au F: facebook.com/badmintonvic T: twitter.com/baddyvic APRIL 2012 | 4 BADMINTON VICTORIA ‘Around the Courts’ Pat Daw Inducted As A BV Life Member (Cont.) Pat has assisted Badminton Victoria with tournaments, school events and special events such as hosting the Singapore Junior Badminton trip to Melbourne in 2009. Pat was very supportive and proactive in the set up and running of the Western Suburbs Badminton Association’s junior development squad in 2002. Since that time the association has conducted clinics in many of our local schools and the number of children passing through clinics, casual coaching, squads and our junior pennant would number in the thousands. Pat has just commenced her 22nd year as president of Western Suburbs Badminton Association, by far and away the longest serving president in its seventy-seven year existence. Pat became interested in badminton when she went to pennant competition matches at St Johns Footscray with her parents Ray & Mavis Weisheit and played for about forty years. Pat obviously has badminton in her blood. Her father, Ray is also a WSBA life member (1952) and a Badminton Victoria life member (1954). Pat became a life member of Western Suburbs Badminton Association in 2000." Badminton Victoria Board Changes Badminton Victoria would like to welcome the latest addition to the BV board, Rochelle Liyanage. Rochelle was appointed at the 2011 AGM, held on Saturday 17th March 2012, alongside the reappointment of Peejade Cheng as President and Ron Gray & Paul Kern as board members. Rochelle is member from the South East Badminton Club(SEBA) and has long history of playing, officiating and volunteering within Badminton in Victoria. Badminton Victoria would also like to thank Jacky Chen, who decided to step away from the BV board, for his valuable contribution to Badminton during his term on the board. The Badminton Victoria board currently stands as: President: Peejade Cheng Board Members: Val Nesbitt (Secretary), Ron Gray (Treasurer), Kay Coady, Paul Kern, Peter Brown & Rochelle Liyanage W: badmintonvic.com.au F: facebook.com/badmintonvic T: twitter.com/baddyvic APRIL 2012 | 5 BADMINTON VICTORIA ‘Around the Courts’ 2012/13 VIS Scholarships Applications for Individual Athlete Scholarships are invited from Victorian athletes with outstanding performance records at national and/or international level in sports that are currently not a VIS Tier 1 Program. Applications are also invited from athletes with a disability with an outstanding record in any sport (excluding AWD Athletics & AWD Swimming which are part of our Tier 1 programs) and with potential to succeed at the high performance level. Scholarships provide assistance with specialist coaching, sport science, sports medicine, physical preparation and education & career development services as well as training & competition expenses. Application forms and guidelines are available from: Victorian Institute of Sport Telephone: (03) 9425 0061 Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.vis.org.au Closing